Chapter 1: Welcome to Hell
Beep Beep, I hit my alarm to turn it off before I get in trouble for waking everyone up in my foster home. I peak through my black hair that has cascaded down my face and covering my eyes, "4:00am." I sigh, trying to crawl out of bed. You would think my foster parents would let me sleep in, considering it's my first day of senior year.
"Mutt, what is taking you so long? Breakfast isn't going to cook itself!" My foster mom was yelling yet again. I roll my eyes, " I'll be right down ma'am," I call after her. I rush to get my ripped black jeans on along with my dark blue crop top that stops just above my bellow ring. Being a foster kid, you don't really get nice clothes like this, but my best friend insisted on giving me her old clothes.
At first, Mr. and Mrs. Bell told me to give them back to her but with her being the Alpha and Lunas daughter it would make them look bad, so instead the locked me in the cellar for the weekend for being ungrateful for what they do give me.
Rushing out the door, I hit Christina, and I fell down. She stands over me and says, "Watch it, Mutt. If you taint me with your smell, Nathan and Zack will be pi***d, " She says with a snear, flipping her long blonde hair with her manicured hands. She steps over me, and I continue to make my way to the kitchen without incident. Thank Goddess.
"Took you long enough." my foster mother said with a look of distaste. She looks like she would be the sweet motherly type, but don't judge a book by its cover. She has deep brown eyes that sparkle to the right people or settings, a kind smile with a warm glow to her skin that matches her golden hair that looks so much like Christina's. However, to me, she has cold, almost charcoal eyes, and her kind smile is always a frown. She is just cold towards anyone and anything that isn't Bell material.
"I'm sorry," I murmur to her, bowing down and getting busy making breakfast.
"You are so ungrateful," Mrs. Bell slaps me hard in the face. " We took you in when my w***e of a sister-in-law got pregnant and couldn't care for you. You are lucky you are my niece, or you would have already been sent as a breeder. This is how you repay us by being disrespectful and lazy?" She spats at me, eyes turning black and her wolf coming to the surface.
"I'm sorry, yes, you are right. I am forever in your debt for being so kind." I say, rolling my eyes at her. I will not let her see me cry she doesn't deserve my tears, none of the Bells do. She grabs me by my hair, and I let out a whimper, trying to steady my breathing. "You, my dear, are lucky to have a friend that will miss you, and she is the Alphas daughter or you wouldn't be going to senior year."
She back hands me, and I fell to the ground, clutching my cheek and fighting back my tears. I guess she deemed it was enough punishment because she walks off saying, "Put some makeup on your face before you leave."
I run out of the kitchen and into the bathroom. I look myself over in the mirror, my jade green eyes are shining with unshed tears. My jet black hair is knotted from where she grabbed it. It took me five minutes to untangle my mess. It finally flowed down to just an inch above my butt. The bruise on my cheek is dark purple and with red still around it contrasting with my natural tan that I have all year round. I can't wait until my birthday tomorrow, I won't be so weak then.
As I finish my last touch-up, I hear Audrey pulling in and honking her horn for me. I rush out the door to her little bug. You would think being the richest and most powerful family in the pack, she would have a super expensive car, but Alpha and Luna believe that everyone should start with what would be suitable for a teenager.
"Hey, how's it going?" Audrey asked. After I closed the door and put my seat belt on. I just shook my head, not wanting to talk about it. she continues like I didn't just shake my head no, "I mean it tomorrow move in with me. You will be 18 my parents won't care. Just think about it, please. You shouldn't have yo worry about if you will be getting hurt or not.
"Are you serious? Your brothers hate me, and they are with my foster sister. I wouldn't be away from her, just a new place besides school for them to hurt me." I say back, trying to make her understand that I don't want to be picked on there too.
"No, you know my parents don't agree with that, and my brothers are not that stupid to do it under their roof."
"Maybe not them, but "Christina is pretty stupid, and then she will for some god awful reason. I think I'm trying to steal the twins." We finally pull up at school, ending our conversation. I'm sure we will continue it tonight since it's my first shift and I'm doing it at her house.
We walk to our lockers that are right by each other since Audrey always requests it like that even though she is a year younger than me. She is a junior while I'm a senior and the same grade as her brothers. They will be 18 Friday, so she, of course, invited me to their party as her plus one.
The first bell started to ring, "Okayy, I'm heading to class, I'll see you after." She says running off so she won't be late. I just laugh and shake my head. As I pull my hands away, not even a millisecond later SLAM. I look up to see Christina and the twins laughing.
I just keep my head down and turn around to head to calculus, and I trip over something. I looked up it was Nathan with a nasty smirk on his face. "I told you not to taint my scent they don't like the smell of omegas, especially mutts like you." She walks away the boys laughing. Yup, welcome to Hell.
